The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier
Private foundation · Montreal, Quebec · BN 863613295RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($41,307,077) as filed with the CRA.
The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier is a private foundation based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $85.6M in revenue and $41.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 220 qualified donees totalling $36.8M in 2024, the largest being $4.6M to Clean Economy Fund. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $17.5M in 2020 to $85.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
In addition to grants to qualified donees in the areas of scientific research education environment health and communities our climate program supports innovative responses initiatives and projects that mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions at scale.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $85.6M | $41.3M | $8,000 | — | $36.8M | $766.6M |
| 2023 | $62.9M | $28.3M | $36K | — | $24.7M | $722.4M |
| 2022 | $472.8M | $24.3M | — | — | $22M | $687.8M |
| 2021 | $28.2M | $23.9M | — | — | $22.2M | $239.8M |
| 2020 | $17.5M | $20.1M | — | — | $18.6M | $235.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $36.8M to 220 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Clean Economy Fund$4.6M
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$3.6M
- Fondation et Alumni de Polytechnique Montreal$2.5M
- Université de Montréal$2M
- Small Change Fund$1.6M
- Teresa Dellar Palliative Care Residence Foundation Inc.$1M
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$787K
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$740K
- Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment$692K
- Environmental Defence Canada$609K
- Let's Talk Science/parlons Science$600K
- Environment Funders Canada$595K
- Salal Foundation$567K
- Fondation du Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal$483K
- The Transition Accelerator$480K
- Finance Engage Sustain / Financer Engager Soutenir$441K
- Lakeshore General Hospital Foundation$430K
- Nature Québec$405K
- The Welcome Collective/Le collectif bienvenue$300K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$295K
- Simon Fraser University$285K
- Association pour la Sante Publique du Quebec (a.s.p.q.)$275K
- The David Suzuki Foundation$254K
- Raven Indigenous Impact Foundation$250K
- Fondation Santé Urbaine$250K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Louise Rousselle Trottier (secretary treasurer); Claire Trottier (director); Howard Trottier (director); Lorne Trottier (president); Sylvie Trottier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863613295RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.